Scooped again! 
“While the United States is reeling from the stock market’s plunge and the credit crisis, there are severe worldwide consequences to America’s economic woes that have been almost entirely ignored. Most people have not given any thought to the millions of victims of our economic situation: the children in the poorest areas of the world now supported by U.S. donors.”
Read all of Wess’ op-ed piece in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
We live in a capitalist society – no escaping from that fact. But because we’re not satisfied with a free market economy and everything we could ever want or hope to have, we become greedy.
Preachers proclaim that God wants us to have more money more money more money. Banks offer unsustainable low interest rates and high risk loans to people who cannot afford to service their debt. And it all keeps building and building and building until ‘wham’. Welcome to the economic crisis.
John Wesley had some simple rules to follow for sustainable Christian living – 2 of them were ‘do no harm’ and ‘do all the good’. Well, the USA and other western countries have failed on both counts miserably, because of our greed! We have harmed – we have not done ‘all the good’.
So – what now? In the words of another compassion artist – “who will save the children”. Start by sponsoring another child!
Mike Rayson
Jesus freak – International Compassion Artist
It is often difficult to see who is really suffering when it is not me!!! I am thankful Compassion has helped open my eyes a little!!!